Inkscape 0.45.1

Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more.
Inkscapes main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool.
Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes.
Enhancements:
- Patch [ 1667939 ]: fix crash when tile-tracing with too small clones
- Patch [ 1666532 ]: Broken link in inkview man page
- Patch [ 1665447 ]: fix for the blur quantization bug 1617082
- Patch [ 1664849 ]: fix for 1662589: increase blur margins
- Patch [ 1664004 ]: embedimage.py with fixed search order
- Patch [ 1662649 ]: markers.svg with reversed order
- Crudely improve check-markup for { markup, fix translations with bugs in that area (dz and zh_TW).
- Patch [ 1659404 ]: Set locale directory from environment variable
- Patch [ 1657072 ]: fix for bug 1654495
- Patch [ 1654636 ]: defocus dropper checkboxes
- Adding japanese.nsh and russian.nsh into files that should go into the release tarball
- Correct russian translation
- Patch [ 1651797 ]: fix for attributes when saving/save-a-copy
- Patch [ 1651752 ]: fix dropper tool
- Pattern along path extension fixed on Windows
- Include libtiff3.dll in the Windows distribution, fixing crash when opening TIFF files
- Patch [ 1673067 ]: fix blur export on flowtext
- Patch [ 1678075 ]: fix FontInstance.cpp compile issue
- Patch [ 1673502 ]: fix broken Envelope (Summers Night) effect
- Patch [ 1680182 ]: fix pattern inversion on bool op (bug 1659445)
- Patch [ 1681754 ]: fix crash when editing text with multiple tspans
- Patch [ 1682425 ]: fix bug 1679477 (crash exporting gradients to ODG)
- Khmer translation now installs correctly
- Updated Slovak translation
- Updated Bulgarian translation
- Updated Catalan translation
- Updated Czech translation
- Security: fixed format string overflows in dialogs (CVE-2007-1463) and whiteboard Jabber protocol (CVE-2007-1464).